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Show OUR FLAG IS NOT THERE. For the last seven years England and the Fnited States have been strurrdins to see which should export ex-port most. For four years of that time the 1'nited States has been ahead: but last year Great Britain won. The figures are as follows : TOTAL EXPORTS. CALENDAR YEAR?. T'nited Kingdom. United States lf0(1 .. f 1.416,.nl.Vi(10 1 .477,f4.00. IJKii "' ... 1.362.20,000 . 1.4 US, 375.000 jejoo 1.377,219.0011 1.3ri0,n15.000 19(13 L40o.l7.0O0 1. 44. 753,000 1904 "-" MfiolO.Omt 1.4.'1.31'.ioo j905 l.rtOfi. iI.tT.ooo l. ri26.9o, noo 1906 ............. l.2v"12,Oi0 1.798.247,001) There is a feature of it, however, decidedly in Great Britain's favor. Very much that we export is raw material, or the simplest kinds of manufactures; while what Eneland exports is a little raw material ma-terial mixed with British brains, and then Enaland has probablv $10.000.000 to its credit and to our discredit dis-credit every year, from the fact that her ships brinrr to us her exports and they carry from us our exports. ex-ports. The preat Republic is very Mrontr. very rich, but its statesmen ought not to claim very much after all. because they have not found a way yet through which the nations of the earth, judged by our Nation's Na-tion's flacr. know that we exist. If an American wanted to go from New York to Rio or to Buenos Ayres. the quickest and cheapest way he could eo would be to take a British or a German ship and sail 3200 miles to the northeast and then take another British or German ship and sail 7000 miles to the southwest. |